Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
dTala,
CO. OF EDINBURGH.
I. Patrick Hamilton of Little
Wood's Peer- Preston, the fourth son of Thomas Ha-
milton of Priestfield, and brother of the
first Earl of Haddington, was the an-
cestor of this family.
He was Under Secretary of State to
his brother the Earl of Haddington. He
commonly resided at court. The Earl
gave him special instructions as to his
conduct there, still extant in the posses-
sion of Lord Haddington.
Mag. Sig. Lib. He had a charter, under the great
Ivii. No. 324.
seal, " to Sir Patrick Hamilton of Little
Preston, of the lands of Little Preston,"
dated 18th December 1643. He was
commissioner to the Parliament in 1661
for the co. of Edinburgh.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Ninian Macmorran, merchant-burgess
of Edinburgh, afterwards of Newhall.
They had a charter, under the great seal,
of a tenement in Leith, dated 25th July
1615. By her he had issue :
Patrick, his heir.
1. Anne, married to James Hamilton
of Westport, and had issue.
2. Margaret, married to Sir Gideon
Scott of Highchester. Her son, Walter,
married Mary, Countess of Buccleugh,
and was created Earl of Tarras for life.
Douglas (Baronage, p. 216.) errone-
ously calls her daughter of Sir Thomas
Hamilton of Preston.
Ibid. Lib. xlvii
No. 282.
Nisb. Her. ii.
Ap. 38.
Craw. Gen.
Coll. MS.
Adv. Lib.
II. Patrick Hamilton of Little Inq. Ret. Ed.
Preston, who was retoured, 20th Feb.
1662, heir to Sir Patrick, his father, in
the lands of Little Preston, within the
regality of St Andrews, &c. Also heir
to his father in the lands and barony of Inq- R *t- Ed-
Braid, dated 10th April 1678.
He had a charter, under the great Mag- Sig. Lib.
seal, of the lands of Little Preston, &c.
dated 31st January 1668.
He married the Hon. Elizabeth Mac- Wood's Peer-
Gill, daughter of the first Viscount Ox- age ' LL 346 -
fnrd, by whom he had issue :
1. Colonel Thomas, his heir.
1. Daughter, Jean, born 2d February
1666.
III. Colonel Thomas Hamilton ofMag. sr*. Lib.
T »i-n i-n-i ttii Ixxxii. No. 102.
Little l J reston and .bala. He had a
charter, under the great seal, of the pa-
tronage of the hospital of St Leonard's
in Ednam, co. of Roxburgh, dated 24th
July 1706.
He married Elizabeth Stewart of the
house of Grandtully, by whom he had
issue :
1. Thomas, his heir.
1. Daughter, Elizabeth, married to
Malcolm Gibson, Esq., a son of the fa-
mily of Durie.
IV. Thomas Hamilton MacGill
of Fala and Oxford, who succeeded, as